On March 2, Harker held the 13th annual Diana Nichols Math Invitational for grades 6-8. More than 300 students from 16 schools attended, including 52 competing teams and four non-competing teams. 

In the individual grade 6 event, Harker students Cynthia Chen and Jeffrey Kwan took first and fourth place, respectively. Meanwhile, Rose Guan and Katherine Zhang took first and third place, respectively, in the individual grade 7 event.

In the team contests, Harker’s grade 6 team of Gabriel Chai, Cynthia Chen, Grace Huang, Matthew Jin, Jeffrey Kwan, Eileen Li and Vani Mohindra took second place. The grade 7 team of Rose Guan, Jason Huang, Leon Lu, Kaushik Shivakumar, Cindy Wang, Alexander Young and Katherine Zhang took first in their contest. Finally Harker’s grade 8 team of Michael Kwan, Edgar Lin, Sahana Srinivasan, David Wen and Randy Zhao finished second in the grade 8 team event.